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By Wandering Eyes · Posted
The Maryland Jockey Club (TMJC) kicks off its 2026 season with the opening of the Laurel Park Winter Meet on Friday following a successful 2025 ledger. Between Laurel and Pimlico Race Course, the TMJC staged 119 days of live racing comprising 1,109 races. Average per-race handle was $365,637, an increase of 14.29% over 2024. Average daily handle at Laurel and Pimlico was $3,407,493, representing a 13.49% gain over the previous 12 months. Field size was ahead marginally from 7.48 in 2024 to 7.65 last year. The handle for 'Preakness Preview Day on Apr. 19 was $5,537,002, nearly double the amount from 2024. The afternoon featured 'Win Today, See You In May' events, with the winners of the Federico Tesio Stakes and Weber City Miss Stakes earning automatic entry into the GI Preakness Stakes and GII Black-Eyed Susan Stakes, respectively. Jim McKay Maryland Million Day generated $5,707,200 in handle, up from $4,660,001 the prior year. The Winter Meet will take place on Fridays and Saturdays in January before adding a Sunday program in February and March. The highlight of the meet comes Saturday, Feb. 14, with a four-stakes program topped by the $200,000 General George Stakes and Barbara Fritchie Stakes. The post Laurel Park Winter Meet Opens On The Back of 2025 Handle Increase appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article -
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Observations on the European Racing Scene turns the spotlight on the best European races of the day, highlighting well-bred horses early in their careers, horses of note returning to action and young runners that achieved notable results in the sales ring. Friday's Observations features a sought-after Not This Time filly. 5.05 Dundalk, Mdn, 3yo, f, 8f (AWT) BLANC DE BLANC (Not This Time) makes her keenly-anticipated debut for Amo Racing and Robson De Aguiar, having cost $575,000 at the 2024 Keeneland September Sale. The dam Wonderful (Galileo), who raced for Ballydoyle, is a full-sister to their Irish 2,000 Guineas and Breeders' Cup Turf hero Magician, from the excellent family of the star Sadler's Wells fillies Listen and Sequoyah. The post Amo Unveil Not This Time’s Blueblood Blanc De Blanc appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
FOX Sports led all entrants with two Media Eclipse wins–their first live television programming win ever–when the National Thoroughbred Racing Association (NTRA), Daily Racing Form (DRF), and the National Turf Writers and Broadcasters (NTWAB) announced the winners of the 2025 Media Eclipse Awards in six categories on Jan. 8. Every entry must have been primarily published or aired for the first time between Nov. 16, 2024, and Nov. 14, 2025. Honorable mention in the multimedia category went to TDN's Katie Petrunyak for 'Breeders' Cup Breakthrough: For Kevin Attard, Moira's Win More Than A Milestone' and to Christina Bossinakis for 'Tenacious Emma-Jayne Wilson Poised For Next Comeback'. The 2025 Media Eclipse Award winners are as follows: Live Television Programming–FOX Sports, “The Belmont Stakes,” Michael Mulvihill, President–Insight & Analytics, June 7, 2025. This is a first Eclipse for FOX for its live broadcast of the 157th running of the GI Belmont Stakes from Saratoga. Feature Television–FOX Sports, “The Healing Ride,” Michael Mulvihill President–Insight & Analytics, June 7, 2025. The second TV Feature Award for FOX, following on from a Rachel Alexandra profile in 2019, “The Healing Ride” profiled the Mott racing family and the devastating loss of Margot Mott, daughter of trainer Riley Mott and his wife, Megan, and granddaughter to Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott. Margot lost her battle to a form of brain cancer at age two in 2024. Writing–News/Enterprise–Natalie Voss, Paulick Report– “Doom Scroll: Thoroughbreds, Bail Pens, And Horse Traders,” December 2024. In her four-part series, “Doom Scroll: Thoroughbreds, Bail Pens, And Horse Traders,” which was published in the Paulick Report in December 2024, Natalie Voss provided an in-depth analysis on the methods, reactions and ramifications of bail pens, a new and growing economy in which horses, including many Thoroughbreds, are offered for sale to the public under the threat that they will be exported and rendered for meat if a steep “bail price” isn't paid. Writing–Feature/Commentary–Jay Privman, DRF.com and Daily Racing Form, “Lukas Morphed from Caustic to Avuncular,” June 29, 2025. The retired columnist recalled the dynamic career of the late Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas and his personal evolution during more than four decades as a vital force in Thoroughbred racing. The article first appeared on the Daily Racing Form's website DRF.com on June 29, the day following Lukas's passing. Photography–Skip Dickstein, “Unseated,” The Albany Times-Union and BloodHorse, Aug. 31, 2025. Dickstein his second Eclipse Award for Outstanding Photography for his image of an unseated Irad Ortiz Jr. taken after the start of the Aug. 31, 2025, Jockey Club Gold Cup at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Multimedia–Augusta Chapman and Stephen Dubner, Freakonomics Radio “The Horse is Us: Inside the Horse-Industrial Complex,” Oct. 31, 2025. examined the wide-ranging world of horse racing, and discussed the various facets of the industry through from the life of the jockey, to breeding, auction sales, and issues from artificial insemination to recent changes in U.S. immigration policy. The program, the second of the three-part series “The Horse is Us,” was produced by Augusta Chapman and hosted by Stephen Dubner. The program first aired last year on Oct. 31. Media Eclipse Award winners will be presented their trophies at the 55th Annual Resolute Racing Eclipse Awards Ceremony and Dinner at The Breakers Palm Beach in Florida on Thursday, Jan. 22. The post Fox Takes Home Pair of Media Eclipses; TDN Garners Two Honorable Mentions appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
Fourteen countries on five continents will host races from the Breeders' Cup Challenge Series: Win and You're In as the international qualifier for the Breeders' Cup World Championships enters its 20th year in 2026. View the full article -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
Morplay Racing LLC's 'TDN Rising Star' presented by Hagyard Shisospicy (Mitole), who beat the boys in the GI Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint and is a finalist in no fewer than three Eclipse Award categories, will begin her 4-year-old campaign in the Middle East before following a similar course to the Breeders' Cup as in 2025. The news was revealed by Morplay's Rich Mendez and trainer Jose D'Angelo on FanDuel TV midday Thursday. D'Angelo is set to be represented for the second straight season in the G2 1351 Turf Sprint on the Saudi Cup undercard at King Abdulaziz Racecourse on Feb. 14. Howard Wolowitz contested the same event in 2025, finishing 10th. All things equal, Shisospicy would press on to Dubai for the G1 Al Quoz Sprint over the straight 1200 meters at Meydan Racecourse Mar. 28. The Al Quoz is one of five elite-level events on the Dubai World Cup program and the D'Angelo stable could also be represented by GI Breeders' Cup Sprint hero and fellow Eclipse finalist Bentornato (Valiant Minister) in the G1 Dubai Golden Shaheen. The back end of 2026 could look similar to 2025, according to connections. Mendez and D'Angelo indicated the filly could make a return to Kentucky Downs, where last year she took out the GII Music City Stakes en route to the Turf Sprint. As that is an age-restricted affair, Shisospicy has the GII Kentucky Turf Sprint Stakes against the boys over six furlongs or the GII Ladies' Turf Sprint at 6 1/2 panels as options. The 2026 Breeders' Cup will be held at Keeneland. “She had a huge year last year, beat the boys as a 3-year-old,” D'Angelo said on FanDuel TV. “The way she's training, I feel she can compete at this level.” Shisospicy is five-for-six on the grass, her only defeat coming when down the field in the G1 Commonwealth Cup at Royal Ascot last June. Following her victory at Del Mar, achieved in partnership with Qatar Racing, Shisospicy went through the ring at the Fasig-Tipton November Sale, where Morplay bought out their partners on a bid of $5.2 million. The gray returned to the worktab in late December, most recently going three-eighths of a mile in a bullet :36.30 (1/11) at Palm Meadows on Dec. 31. Though clearly biased, Mendez is confident his filly could lock horns with the horse most consider the world's best turf sprinter, Ka Ying Rising (NZ) (Shamexpress {NZ}). “The money makes a difference. For the competition, the better opportunity for her is out there, show the world,” Mendez said. “Some people say she wasn't fast, but I'd love to see a match race between her and Ka Ying Rising.” Shisospicy would depart for Riyadh on a direct flight departing Feb. 2. The post Morplay Reveals Shisospicy Plans For 2026 appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article
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